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THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN In Twichell's letters home we get pleasant pictures of the Mark Twain of that day:

And in another place:

Another extract refers to an incident which Mark Twain also mentions in A Tramp Abroad:

Twichell goes on to tell how he threw some driftwood into a racing torrent and how Mark went running down-stream after it, waving and shouting in a sort of mad ecstasy.